Health Authorities Take Measures Beyond Those Recommended by Experts

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has prompted hospitals and health authorities in other countries to take precautions that often go beyond experts' recommendations, showing the impact of public concern about the deadly disease.

Health officials in Charlotte, N.C., are taking no chances with three missionaries who returned to the U.S. earlier this week from Liberia. All had contact with patients sick with Ebola. So even though they...